Best solution for this problem? Move files without overwriting?

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Atari

Hi

Using the MacOS version.

I was using your program and discovered a ton of dupe files with same name and same time, but different sizes!

I was trying to compare left with right, and move all new and updated files to the right.

But with the size issue, it's not clear which to keep. Is it possible to move those dupe files with different file sizes to a special folder? Your manual hints at this feature in Windows but don't see it in the Mac version.

If that can't be done, is there some way to single out the left files without overwriting the identically named right files? I would like to delete all the data on the left after moving files to the right, but I can't until I solve this problem of identically named files with same times but different file sizes.
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Atari

Does the developer monitor these forums?
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Plerry

I'm not the developer, but ...
It seems the functionality you are looking for is deletion handling/versioning.
You will find that under Synchronization Settings (F8).
I don't know if the MAC version supports the use of the/a Recycle-bin,
but Versioning is probably what you are looking for, and almost certainly also present in the MAC version.
You can select to keep just the last previous version, or all previous versions.

The only feature exclusive to Windows (that I am aware of) is VSS (safe copying of locked files)